Flavobacterium frigidarium

Flavobacterium frigidarium is a bacterium. It is an aerobic, psychrophilic, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacterium from Antarctica. It is gram-negative, non-motile and yellow-pigmented. Its type strain is A2iT (= ATCC 700810T = NCIMB 13737T).[1]

Flavobacterium frigidarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacteroidetes
Class:
Flavobacteria
Order:
Flavobacteriales
Family:
Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:
Flavobacterium
Species:
F. frigidarium

Humphry et al. 2001
Binomial name
Flavobacterium frigidarium

References
  1. Humphry DR, George A, Black GW, Cummings SP (July 2001). "Flavobacterium frigidarium sp. nov., an aerobic, psychrophilic, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacterium from Antarctica". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (Pt 4): 1235–43. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-4-1235. PMID 11491319.

Further reading
  • Humphry, David Robert. Taxonomy of the psychrophile Flavobacterium frigidarium and the mesophile Cellvibrio japonicus, and comparative analyses of their xylanolytic and laminarinolytic activities. Diss. University of Sunderland, 2003.
  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
  • Van Trappen, Stefanie. "Diversity of Flavobacterium spp. in polar aquatic environments." (2009): HASH-0x57f0c78.


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